BradyManny
Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2006
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It's football. It's oversized, maxed out bodies hitting other oversized, maxed out bodies. Something's got to give. The alternative is flag football, or no football.
Fair enough, I do think something has to give at some point, and I'm sure finding the balance is difficult. But like I said above - I think if you offset taking away helmet shots to the knee with allowing DBs to have more contact at the line, the end result is the same for the defense. And you have safer players.
To me, I have a problem with any hit where the helmet becomes a detriment to player safety. It defeats the purpose. If Ward had no helmet on, would he make that hit? Absolutely not. Not unless he wants to knock himself unconscious on Gronk's knee.
That's not going to happen, though.